If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Yellen would be the first woman to lead the 231-year-old U.S. Treasury Department.

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden announced on Monday that he will nominate former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen to be secretary of the Treasury.

If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Yellen, who is Jewish, would be the first woman to lead the 231-year-old U.S. Treasury Department.

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Yellen was the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve, which is America’s central banking system. She served as chairwoman between 2014 and 2018.

Before leading the Federal Reserve, Yellen served as the body’s vice chair from 2010 to 2014, following an earlier term on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

She served as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under U.S. President Bill Clinton, has held a litany of high-profile leadership roles with national and international economic organizations, and has forged a prolific career as a professor of economics, including as a faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley for the last four decades.

In related news, Biden announced the appointment of economist Jared Bernstein, also Jewish, on Monday as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, which advises the president on economic issues. Read more at JNS